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Torrent Clients for OS X

i dont get what i am doing wrong. i am downloading the clients fine. they load. when i click 'download torrent' the torrent file downloads... then nothing. i do not get how to get the .avi file to download in the client. it's really frustrating me. anyone help me at all? how do i get it to start downloading ahhhhhhh
 
i use bits on wheels.. it displays everything i need to know and does everything i need it to do

a lot of people don't like it.. but it works fine for me

i'm not much of a torrent person anyway :eek:
 
well so far ive downloaded AZ, tomato, and the mainline one. i cannot get any of them to download the main files. they download the small inital one, but i am stumped from there.

someone please please please help
 
Maxwell Smart said:
dude, just drag the torrent file into the client or onto the clients icon. haha
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see! thats exactly what i needed. i had no idea i had to do that. let me give it a shot. like i said, i am very very new to mac and the way they work, so i feel like a complete newbie (which i am).

i will try it out and then come back to complain if i cant figue it out. thanks!
 
welp, it worked! thanks so much for giving me the much needed bop on the head. :D

i am just using the basic bit torrent client from bittorrent.com. i just use bit torrent to download music and movies. i am not very advanced with it. should i stick with this generic one? or should i upgrade? reminder.. i just use it to download music and movies (i am not sure of its other uses... for i am such a newb)
 
d wade said:
welp, it worked! thanks so much for giving me the much needed bop on the head. :D

i am just using the basic bit torrent client from bittorrent.com. i just use bit torrent to download music and movies. i am not very advanced with it. should i stick with this generic one? or should i upgrade? reminder.. i just use it to download music and movies (i am not sure of its other uses... for i am such a newb)
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As a recent switcher myself (January '06) I can understand where you are coming from. But what I have learned is that most of the time things are just MUCH simpler... and I had the habit of over thinking and making things harder then they are.

Like installing a program... took me a long time to figure out i just had to drag'n'drop that application into the Applications folder! :p hehe.
 
d wade said:
i just use it to download music and movies (i am not sure of its other uses... for i am such a newb)
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Please remember that Bit Torrent is great for LEGAL purposes.

Such as the free concert download site Etree.

Movies are 99% of the time Illegal to download, and should not be discussed on Mac Rumors. Because it is copyright violation, and Arn runs a clean site.

That being said, scrap all those other Bit Torrent clients and use Transmission.

Now, with the new update to Tranmission, I am official sold on it.

Az, Mainline, Bits on Wheels, Tomato....all going in the trash....nice..
 
bits-on-wheels is the only one i got to work. it seems to work fine for me. i have read alot of negative stuff about transmission, so i am cautious to try it. i figure bits on wheels seems simple and efficient enough for me that i dont need to take the risk of trying one that may srcrew me up.
 
d wade said:
bits-on-wheels is the only one i got to work. it seems to work fine for me. i have read alot of negative stuff about transmission, so i am cautious to try it. i figure bits on wheels seems simple and efficient enough for me that i dont need to take the risk of trying one that may srcrew me up.
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You read a lot of negative stuff about Transmission in this thread from 1 person because it lacks a lot of extensive complex protocol features, but considering you are new at this, and you are looking for a simple, easy to use torrent client that "just works", Transmission was tailor made for you.

Use it. Use it now.
 
I highly recommend Tamato Torrent because it is the only bittorrent client that I could achieve decend d/l rates on my super crappy connection (Wireless from a 1.5Mbps down connection on a router that is pretty far away from my iBook) I tried Azueres and didn't like it at all, then I tried the official client and it was better but the best I got was 7KB down on a file with a lot of seeds, then tamato torrent which is my far the best IMO because I got over 60KB down on the same file.
 
Wow, I just installed Azureus and I am impressed with the performance compared to how it fairs on a PC. I long ago gave up Azureus on PC for uTorrent, which is why I have been using bits on wheels. However, I have been noticing that bits on wheels seems to have issues reporting my seed/download ratios.
 
I wish the official client just had the ability to let you choose which files to download from a torrent.

I use that feature all the time and yet so few clients support it.

I currently use AZ and have done for years now (never crashed once) and no other client has so far offered that one feature.

I don't need all the features AZ has. All I need is the following:

able to set global up and down speeds
manage all transfers in one window
pause and restart downloads
for the client to not be banned from servers
to be able to choose files individually (preferrably to make absolutely sure it doesn't allocate those files too - AZ sometimes allocates space for file that don't download)
minimal use of resources

So far only AZ satisfies those with the possible exception of the last one but then again I've never seen a Java app on OS X run very well so it might just be the OS X Java VM.

I was looking at the command line rtorrent for OS X, which is a CLI app. I can't find a binary for it and as usual it's not building from source. I came across it looking in this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_software

Again though, it doesn't seem to support the few features I need.

I wonder why Bittorrent client devs implement features like a 3D transfer view before selective file downloads. Maybe a transfer view gives you something to watch but does it really give you any more info than a list of text?
 
janey said:
Yeh I know, and it still stands for older versions, but I'm still not one to use a meh client.
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LOL, you crack me up,

Have you tried the newest version of Trans? you may like it.....


And for the record, Bits on Wheels is too wacky for me, I've ditched it, and Tomato is annoying how each torrent has it's own download window...

I can't get Acquisition to work at all, but I havn't tried that hard...and I wanna try the Bit Torrent option in Opera 9 but I'm not sure how that works yet..
 
Do any mac clients tell you the speed the download went at certain times?
I would love to see a "review" screen of the download after it's finished. Maybe even a bar graph.
 
Azureus shows a line graph of download speed, but it only records the last 15 minutes or so. I believe that's under View --> Statistics, though I'm really not sure.
I think Azureus also does logging; I'm not sure how easy it would be to translate that into a graph though.
 
Acquisition has been one of the best P2P clients for OS X for a long while, and now it supports torrent files as well. I'm running it on my Intel iMac, and it works great.

http://acquisitionx.com/

I highly recommend it; it's updated all the time.
 
I can't get azureus to work on my macbook, even after downloading the intel version. I'm currently using tomato torrent which works find except for it's lack of customization. I'd like to be able to download specific files in a torrent file (like u can in azureus) in stead of having to download the entire thing (like in tomato torrent). Anyone know of such a client for intel Macs?
 
I also vouch for Azuerus not working in Intel. I cannot seem to get it to launch on my macbook.
 
I have some questions about how this torrent protocol works... :D

In BitTorrent, There's an L or R by the IP Address. What does that mean?

Farther down the row is a i or s. What does that mean?
 
No problems with the UB version of Azureus here.

Runs well and quite responsive on the Intel iMac I have here.
 
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